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By Tony Ends, Correspondent – Developing a park devoted to dogs and their owners in Brodhead is making steady progress toward an opening date early next year. Madison and Dane County have seven dog parks. There are at least three dog parks near Rockford. Yet it’s unusual for a city […]
By Tony Ends, Correspondent – City of Brodhead and Common Council got a clean bill of health and positive review in its 2018 audit in its regular meeting this past week. Carla Gogin, who is a partner in Baker Tilly Virchow Krause’s public sector practice group, presented a 14-page overview […]
By Tony Ends, Correspondent – Several hundred people gave a very warm July welcome to Kelch Aviation Museum’s groundbreaking last Friday morning south of Brodhead. With clear skies and temperatures soaring into the 90s, the crowd gathered round Kelch Foundation board members at the 2.5-acre site adjacent Brodhead Airport. Armed […]
By Tony Ends, Correspondent – Picture for a moment what you love about the land we call Wisconsin. Plunging into a cool, clear pond after a long, hot day putting up hay. Wading into a marsh and casting for bass or bluegill as cranes wing noiselessly across a setting sun. […]
By Jeremy Gokey, Correspondent – Brodhead Garden Club donated the proceeds from their annual plant sale to the city to use toward replanting trees after the loss of the ash trees last year. Diane Anderson and Joyce Nipple presented Mayor Doug Pinnow with a check for $803 to use toward […]
Cody Baxter and Skylar Stanley of the Brodhead FFA Chapter attended the Washington Leadership Conference the third week of June. Washington Leadership Conference (WLC) is the highest leadership conference you can attend as an FFA member and is facilitated by National FFA staff members, most of them having served as […]
Hello, my name is Rileigh Powers and I am the 2018-2019 Brodhead Dairy Queen. I would like to say a few Thank You’s and give a brief synopsis of my year as I pass the crown to Samantha McGuire Brodhead’s 2019-2020 Dairy Queen. Thank you to the Green County Ag […]
By Lenny Lueck, Brodhead School Superintendent – At the beginning of the 2017-18 school year the Brodhead School Board developed “Areas of Focus” for the District and these continued for the 2018-19 school year. The Board identified three Areas of Focus: Student Achievement, Service, and People. Through the use of […]
By Trenten Scheidegger, Correspondent – The Brodhead community lost a tremendous sports advocate, and even better man during the past week. Tom Nipple has nearly impacted every single Brodhead citizen’s life in one way or another. Tom was involved in the Brodhead sports community for perhaps longer than anyone else. […]
Thomas R. Nipple is now “safe” at “home” in the arms of Jesus. He was born on July 2, 1960 in Monroe, WI, and died at home on June 18, 2019. Tom was the son of Lawrence and Joyce (Zimmerman) Nipple. He married the love of his life, Andi Vogel, […]
